Improvement in band-ruffles



ATENT FFioE.

Ntra STATES C. O. CROSBY, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 110,739. dated December 1, 1863.

the width of ruftle I intend to make as will fold over and make the band, as hereinafter described. I first hem the strip upon the outer edge, as at a, Fig. 2. This done, I introduce one end of the strip into the frilling, shirrin g, or rufdin g machine through a foldinginstrument not altogether unlike the common hemmer, which turns over the edge b and lays a fold the desired width of the band c, as see Fig. 2, enlarged. From the said instrument the folded fabric passes directly into the crimping, shirrin g, or ruftling apparatus, and is there crimped, plaited, or shirred, as see Fig. 3, and `the crimps, plaits, or shirrs pressed down and stitched with two rows of stitching, as denoted in red in the several ligures. This operation leaves the other edge full ruftled or frllled, as see Fig. 1. The band th us formed will have a plaited and similar a-ppearace on both sides, and by being doubled, plaited, and stitched together in the manner described forms a stiff finished edge, which preserves its forms and thatof the ruffle .To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, C. O. CROSBY, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and Improved Band-Ruftle 5 and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, and which said drawings constitute part of this specilication, and represent, in-

Figure l, a view ofa piece of my ruffle 5 Fig. 2, a transverse section ofthe same enlarged 5 and in Fig. 3 a longitudinal section of the same, cutting through the band.

My invention relates to ruiin g or frilling made upon the ruftling or frilling machine for which Letters Patent were granted to myself and Henry Kellogg, bearing date December 2, 1862; and it consists in forming a band upon the ruffle from one and the same piece of fabric for the purpose of giving to the upper or stitched edge of the ruffle a smooth ljnished appearance, and at the same time much longer than Without the band. to stiften the upper edge to better preserve Having thus fully set forth and described the form of the ruflie. my improved ruffle, what I claim as new and To enable others skilled in the art to -prouseful, and desire to secure by Letters Patduee my improved band-ruftle, I will proceed ent, isto describe my manner of so doing. As a new article of manufacture, the within- I prefer to make my ruiiie from thin musdescribed bandruiile, produced from a single lin hemmed upon one edge previous to being strip of fabric folded and plaited, crimped or introduced into the frilling or shirring mashirred, and stitched through both band and chine aforesaid, but it may be made from ribruffle with two rows ofstitching, substantially bon or any strip of fabric with or without in the manner herein set forth. selvages, and hemmed or unhemmed upon one C. O. CROSBY. or both edges.

The strip from which I propose to make my improved ruffle must be as much wider than Witnesses:

ARAsMUs FRENCH, JOHN E. EARLE. 

